The fetishization of European urbanism continues absurdly.
Look at this image, yet consider that crowded cafés are terrible.
Sartre famously worked from the Café de Flore and—not coincidentally—wrote, “L’enfer, c’est les autres."
("Hell is just other people.”)
Conversation
Ten minutes in a Starbucks drive-thru is far better than 10 minutes in a crowded Parisian café. You can read in silence or listen to your preferred music; chat with people in your internet community instead of randos; dictate an essay. Way better.
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